Tess Gerritsen's 'Playing With Fire' is compelling story
Saturday, 5 December 2015, 14:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Tess Gerritsen, author of the series featuring Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and coroner Maura Isles, delivers an outstanding story that's totally different with "Playing With...
'The Promise' is intense, thrilling mystery
Friday, 4 December 2015, 13:59
Last update: about 12 years ago
Robert Crais takes the most popular characters from previous novels and shakes them up in "The Promise," an intense and thrilling mystery. Private Investigator Elvis Cole is asked by the boss of...
'Reporting Always': collection of writings by Lillian Ross
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 13:57
Last update: about 12 years ago
There are few people who can say they have been on the company's payroll for decades. Lillian Ross is one of those individuals. She began her career at The New Yorker in 1945 as a reporter for "The...
King ponders death in new 21-story 'Bazaar of Bad Dreams'
Wednesday, 2 December 2015, 13:54
Last update: about 12 years ago
Stephen King has always addressed his "Constant Readers" in prefaces or afterwords to his books. He likes to share what inspired him or what he was thinking about when he wrote it. But with the...
10 decades and still going: Roger Angell looks back
Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 13:48
Last update: about 12 years ago
You don't make it to age 95 without seeing a lot of stuff. Or in the case of Roger Angell, writing it. Having delivered his memoir nearly a decade ago ("Let Me Finish," published in 2006), Angell...
XBIHAT FUQ IT-TILA
Friday, 23 October 2015, 16:29
Last update: about 12 years ago
Horizons Communications has published another book written by Salv Sammut, Xbihat fuq it-Tila (Figures in a Landscape). The title instantly implies an element of symbolism and metaphor of imagined...
Truth is elusive, slippery in entertaining 'Truth'
Thursday, 22 October 2015, 16:44
Last update: about 12 years ago
There's a scene in "Truth," James Vanderbilt's crisp, absorbing new film about the doomed 2004 CBS story on then-president George W. Bush and his National Guard service, where execs are doing...
The historicity of Maltese seafaring
Thursday, 22 October 2015, 16:25
Last update: about 12 years ago
Laurent Ropa The historicity of Maltese seafaring knows its origins from the earliest of times; whether exploring, pirateering or indeed migrating in search of brighter days. The great migratory...